CRISPR: The New Tool In The Gene Editing Revolution Explained CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is an integral part of a bacterial defense system. It is also the basis of the CRISPR-Cas9 system. The CRISPR molecule is made up of short palindromic DNA sequences that are repeated along the molecule and are… Read more

CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Repetitive DNA sequences, called CRISPR, were observed in bacteria with “spacer” DNA sequences in between the repeats that exactly match viral sequences. It was subsequently discovered that bacteria transcribe these DNA elements to RNA upon viral infection. The RNA guides a nuclease (a protein that cleaves… Read more